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| Boy killed, 9 injured in bomb blast in eastern India |
| 2018-10-03 |
| [DAWN] Authorities say a seven-year-old boy has been killed and 9 other people were maimed in a kaboom in suburban Kolkata in India's eastern West Bengal state. Barrackpore Police Commissioner Rajesh Kumar Singh says an investigation is underway into Tuesday morning's blast outside a shop closed on the Indian national holiday for Mahatma Gandhi's birthday. The impact of the blast destroyed the shop's iron shutters. Ten people standing outside the shop were maimed by debris and taken to a hospital, where the boy died. Local Trinamool Congress party (TMC) leader Panchu Gopal Roy says he was the target of the kaboom. In late August, nine people were killed in festivities in the state triggered by opposition parties contesting the victory of the ruling TMC party in recent local municipal elections. |
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